Category Archives: Solo & Small Firm

Book review: Solo by Choice

By Jordan Furlong | Published: April 30, 2008
This is the first in what I hope will be a more than occasional foray into book reviews at Law21. There are so many good titles out there now that deal with law practice issues in an innovative way that I’d like to bring some of them to your attention. I have a few more [...]
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Takeaways from TECHSHOW

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 17, 2008
The kid is back from the candy store known as ABA TECHSHOW. This was my first trip in two years, and probably the best of the shows I’ve attended so far. I met up with old friends, made some new ones, and managed to avoid most of the St. Patrick’s Day revellers at the Chicago [...]
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Virtually legal

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 22, 2008
I’ve just assigned a feature article for the April/May 2008 issue of National that aims to explore the future of the sole practitioner. As I noted in a previous post, I’m worried about the near-term prospects for solos, especially in smaller centers, but I’m bullish on their chances down the road, so long as they’re [...]
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Law firm size: past, present and future

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 11, 2008
After making an offhand comment in a previous post, that only about 10% of all Canadian lawyers were in large law firms, I began to wonder if that was, you know, accurate. So I checked the statistical breakdowns available at the Federation of Law Societies of Canada website and confirmed that yes, out of 79,147 [...]
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